fears of all to see in the cradle of democracy great police arrest another journalist before he can reveal claims of faults surrounding the country's bailout . cash to mounds backfire on the british prime minister rebels from david cameron's own party deal him there's a war swallow since he took power by voting for cuts to the country's payments to brussels. and washington calls for a total revamp of the syrian opposition its main body as their main western backers are here to have lost faith.

on screen and on line twenty four hours a day seven days a week you're with r t and i'm karen. while the greek authorities look to be tightening their hold on the media as another journalist is taken into custody in a legit attempt to silence him spittles a cut outs of hadiths promise to reveal potentially damaging information on the greek bailout on t.v. but was arrested before he could cut outs of his claims he has proof that facts about the greek deficit that forced athens to seek aid were fraudulent he says he received the data from doctors group anonymous broke into government computers at the same time another greek journalist course thus vaxevanis is on trial for a breach of privacy for publishing the names of two thousand greeks with swiss bank accounts fellow greek journalist says be only governments says rather the government's only way to push their cots through it's to silence the media. a lot of journalists a mouth and reasoned of course how do you when you i'm afraid to quite know that is

enough back to put is a pretty in greece. a lot of generally separate thought the coalition government strug struggling to push through and i don't want to go state of the problem because the only way to do to succeed by the. media the problem now is the government drive favorite way you mr summer i was the prime mean is that it would be way to begin to money too late for a. private media a lot of generally dry who is the government vip with the journalist not the enemy the enemy is outside of course is not. the man of protests and of generalists funding for the european union has sparked a rebellion in the british parliament prime minister david cameron's own

conservative backbenchers delton the worst defeat since he took power in two thousand and ten euro skeptic tories joined forces with the opposition and voted for cutting the u.k.'s cash flow to brussels safir of has details. well the most significant defeat full of the government since they came to power we saw two m.p.'s standing alongside labor calling for real time cuts to the budget now those negotiations old that budget against take place in brussels later on this month the prime minister david cameron has been calling on his party to stand with him in his approach to these negotiations a heaping tool king about a rise in line with inflation which would have been at about eighty percent the government today very much trying to downplay that defeat saying of kools they're going to be fighting for the person's best interest but clearly many members of their own policy feeling that the best wasn't good enough it was

a significant that the vision of the three tory m.p.'s that has left the government looking increasingly disconnected not just from their own policy but from the british public as well certainly when it comes to this question of the e.u. you know we had the prime minister nick clegg speaking today in a keynote speech talking in defense of britain's role within the e.u. he spoke about the arguments the repatch ation of powers from the as a full promise wrapped in a union jack one m.p. describing it last night in that very passionate debate that we saw taking place in the house of commons as alice in wonderland economics and that's a very much a sense you get from a lot of people that is this connected from reality to us people who are tightening their belts to be contributing even more money to the decision made last night isn't going to be binding on the government but it's certainly going to prime minister david cameron under

a fair amount of pressure when he doing that negotiating table we don't know of course what the outcome of these negotiations will be but one thing is absolutely certain that this very heated debate and argument about britain's role within the is looking set to run and run. earlier i spoke to one of those conservative m.p.'s who oppose the prime minister and voted for calling the u.k.'s contribution to brussels mark per charge believes the e.u. is inefficient and that britain's should get the chance to vote on whether to stay part of it but inflation increase on the budget would equate to an extra three hundred million pounds a year and that would increase over the multi annual budget up to two thousand and twenty and at a time when the u.k. families are having to make very difficult often painful decisions with their household budgets local councils doing the same and even our own national government here in the u.k. i think it is absolutely right to expect the european union to try and trim some of its very large budget

a budget that will increase to around one trillion euros up to two thousand and twenty so there is certainly room for efficiency savings this is a an entity which has failed to have its own account signed off for the last seventeen years it's i think a wasteful inefficient entity why i think it's politically smart for the government and i'm a member of the governing party to actually be in touch with public opinion majority of people in the united kingdom have never had a say on our relationship with europe we need a referendum this side of the general election in this parliament and let democracy ray and let the british people have their voice heard just as before the us presidential election green party candidate jill stein has been arrested for a second time in two weeks she was trying to bring food and supplies to activists protesting against an extension to an oil pipeline in texas sign was later released after being charged with trespassing green party spokesman scott mcclellan says of the incident shows alternatives to obama and romney are being sidelined. dr stein

was assisting the activists in order to make a statement she was delivering supplies to the protestors i understand that they were camping out in trees they were in the they were in the way of the construction of the pipeline we do know that the last time dr stunned was arrested about two weeks ago and she attempted to answer the obama romney debate that was taking place at hofstra university on long island she and running mate cherie hochul were detained and handcuffed to a chair for for eight hours before being released the obama romney debates are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates which is itself owned by the democratic and republican parties for the express purpose of privileging their own candidates and excluding other candidates and we we call that an outrage.

third party candidates jill stein and gary johnson will again try to break the mainstream media blockade right on the eve of the vote r.t. will broadcast the final round of their debates live on monday. governor romney are we both agree we agree we ought to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's go back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on r.g.p. . there are fears america's close presidential race could be plagued by electoral fraud at least that's what critics say they claim the voting system is not transparent enough and could be read. also washington turns its back

on the leadership of the syrian opposition we look at why the u.s. has been ditched the foreign based group and called for a major opposition overhaul with plans to bring rebel fighters on board that's just ahead. in this room siberians in which people still seeing the sounds which russians saying to the media agents and they cherish the practice church before the seventeenth century believe this here is sign here are a conservative community. by the way there yet i feel. i know i'm doing that by.

people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. seventeen year old nadia is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. ok i didn't ask on time for an answer yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to of camp my very ground home exercise lawyer their attachment to the church brought the sisters to this remote glen and east deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not agreeing to the orthodox who forms introduced in russia in the sixteenth hundreds deal believers

still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying was more and more young people leaving for big city it's this here is the old believers culture could be in peril are you not your plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the jews are fresh in her memory so is the culture. back to watching r t with me karen tara activists say rebel attacks in syria's north have killed at least twenty eight soldiers while there's also been a series of explosions in the capital damascus that says one of the rebels main western backers washington house called for a complete shake up of the opposition revealing plans to bring in militants

fighting at the front line. secretary of state hillary clinton said the u.s. no longer see syria's foreign based national council as a leading opposition force due to its lack of support on the ground syria has various rebel militias many of which have been infiltrated by radical islamists linked to al qaida meanwhile the exiled opposition group is planning to base itself in a solid syria in an attempt to prove its relevance to skeptical international backers mentally sexpert professor jeremy saul says the s.n.c. in lost its influence long ago. the syrian national council was dysfunctional dirty from the beginning it's never taken off it's never been any evidence this just group had any support on the ground in syria the armed groups the disparate response from seoul's there's no coordinating body there's no central command and we now know that the fighting has been led in many areas by the feature heavies and they have their own agenda which is not just in syria it's to set up an islamic

states and what is really quite striking is it took the american such a long time to wake up to suspect i mean we had hillary clinton her last visit to stumble which is a few weeks ago she didn't even bother to meet members of that council and i think that was the that was a very clear sign another kind of this alternative which is a new council dice and this seems to me another attempt by the united states to take control of the situation situation which at the moment is out of the control by setting up this council without dropping in my name which is to bring down the syrian government no i think any kind of reasonable person look at the situation would say that the first priority should be to actually bring about to be to cease fire stop the fighting and they're not willing to do that they're kind of still looking for alternatives without dropping their prime objectives of bringing down that government and and still holding back from throwing their weight behind. the attempts to bring about a cease fire without any preconditions. with obama and romney still running neck and critics saying the close race will make it easier to rig the election some

claim the core of america's voting system is flawed as it relies on equipment which can easily be tampered with is enough the situation now reports. the us a beacon of democracy and an example to be followed by the rest of the world one big source of pride is its fundamental concept of free and fair elections american elections are a disgrace it's like walking into the kitchen of a first class restaurant and losing or appetite at what you see because we have an election system a voting system that is completely nontransparent an opinion shared by many political experts and educators if you were here. and in a magician suit then went behind a curtain came out having first shredded the ballots to go you won would you trust that process and that process largely to blame is the outdated elec trying to voting system in the states where all they have this electronic voting it could be

a real problem. if you don't have some other type of backup source to verify the vote count. it could be a problem read friedman is an independent award winning blogger who has covered the u.s. election system for years he calls the problem a pandemic and says change is long overdue every single state in the union uses electronic voting a third of the voters this year will vote on one hundred percent on verifiable touch screen voting systems electronic voting systems. the rest of the country by and large will vote on paper ballots but those paper ballots are also counted by electronic systems so unless you can see inside a computer there is no way to know if those computers tally those ballots correctly several experiments conducted on i would trying to voting machines have proven that simple keystrokes and some knowledge of science and. pewters could flip results the security side machine cleared the increase in numbers insert the correct numbers

experts see the accuracy of the vote count even with people a trail is a myth in the ninety nine percent plus percent of the cases those ballots never see the light of day or never examined it never reach out to basically american elections at this point have virtually zero claim on public confidence and which intimacy the rules and specific ations of how lections are held very locally and state by state four thousand different counties each of them use a different type of system a different type of voting system each of them have different laws different vulnerabilities one particular company that makes electronic voting machines in the us has earned a dubious reputation for unverifiable results as records vanish into thin air i go to an a.t.m. and it's a debug machine i get a confirmation slip and i go around the corner to vote and i you know make my vote and there's no record other voter machine production companies are also known to

have strong partisan affiliations they are not accountable to any voters. they are not just private but private and extreme in their political sympathies democrats don't actually win that many elections to be precise democrats almost never win close elections and the trick therefore is to see to it that a race is or looks close improving the election process in this digital age doesn't appear to be on anyone's agenda including barack obama's our president who won't talk ever about election fraud and denies that it has ever happened even when you know members of his own party have been the victims of it and while the number of reported flaws grows with each passing election over the past decade since two thousand when i think congress was pretending to want to make things better what has happened is things have gotten much much worse it appears stealing an election in the us maybe a candidate. certain way to secure a win it's easy as one two three in this digital age of smartphones tablets and

satellite navigation systems american voters will head to the polls this november to cast their ballots using antiquated and unreliable voting machines machines that will ultimately determine who will lead this nation in much need of its own repairs and as they say pretty new york. the scandal over to nami relief on siphoned off elsewhere shock in japan after revelations that billions meant to help victims and reconstruction has gone to everything from helping hunt whales to businesses nowhere near the disaster zone a full details online. but get a taste for an orbital adventure right now you can watch live pictures on our website of a space walk as crew members at the international space station make their own star trek. russian businessman blood on labor day of who was jailed for his involvement in russia's infamous hugo scandal has had his

prison term for corruption reduced by three years he will walk free next july let's get details now from our thomas why has this ruling been made. well specifically this ruling deals with close on labor day of who is the former head of and also the partner of notorious mikhail khodorkovsky of yukos fame now his sentence was reduced from thirteen years to ten years by a local court in our town girls let me take you a little bit back through it to get to where we were today in two thousand and five both men were convicted of tax evasion and then they were retried in two thousand and ten and then convicted of stealing oil from their company now last year dimitri medvedev who was then president introduced legislation to soften white collar crimes specifically favoring financial penalties as opposed to criminal sentences. therefore decriminalizing more white collar crime so that they could

free up some space in the russian prison system basically saying that these were not violent offenders and they shouldn't be treated as such so they would be financially punished instead now this set the of course if you will for the decision of this lessening of this sentence now the lawyers have said that this is the closest thing that they can get to to a. humane sentence and they do not plan to appeal this decision and just putting it into perspective has actually been in custody for ten years now he is serving his time here which means that he will be eligible for release in july two thousand and thirteen so this coming summer it's possible there . will be free. from moscow thomas thank you. anyway internet law has come into effect in russia allowing the government to shut down web sites potentially harmful to children earlier this serial number of the

country's most popular websites spoke out against the plan claiming it could pave the way for online censorship you go to school has details. well an online registry which is going to contain the list of banned websites is already operating the purpose of this law is to protect children from potentially harmful information on the internet and the way it works is that authorities monitor the web and find things like instructions how to consume drugs or to make weapons or propaganda of suicide or of course pornography then this web site is recommended to take this information down if it doesn't then its host is recommended to do the same and if the in force still stays on line then the website is put on this list in this registry is blocked and remains blocked until the information is taken down the reaction on this floor has been mixed while there are those who believe that it could actually help protect children or all that also those who believe that it could be used to censor the internet but needless to see similar child protection

laws are not something which was created here in russia it's a widespread practice over the wall for a look at europe then there is some very tough legislation especially in some scandinavian countries with punishments going all the way up to jail sentences if we look at the united states then there is the controversial law which prohibits children under thirteen from using search engines like google in g. mail but this has been causing quite a lot of criticism as well here in russia we're talking about temporary measures because like i said these blocked websites could be unblocked if the information is taken down there's also always the possibility of taking these cases to court which could also worth the band set by the authorities time now for a look at some other international stories and brief if you will tanker explosion in the saudi capital riyadh has killed at least twenty two people and injured more than one hundred ten near a local military building a lorry blew up after crashing into a concrete highway underpass engulfing cars and houses and flames in multi-story

building in a nearby industrial estate was destroyed almost entirely by the massive blast. the latest fire. leaves have warned of harsher measures in their crackdown on demonstrators who are defying a ban on public gatherings as follows a night of severe clashes between police and protesters who marched in support of a jailed opposition activists a violence initially erupted over changes to kuwait select torah law opposition groups say the legislation favors progress in candidates in next month's parliamentary polls. a heavy tropical storm has slammed into southern india killing at least eight people and forcing thousands to flee their homes. brought heavy rains prompting massive lun fall and flooding in low lying areas and oil tanker has also run a ground it's six crew members are now missing after their life boat capsized. and you will want to stay with us coming your way we explore the historic tradition of bride snatching in kyrgyzstan that's just ahead.

which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you saw officer for some breeder on the island of van horn at the heart of by call his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and she's horses weren't there sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes the. it's part of my every

day life. i home sweet home to a new brown it's like rich. for centuries most still live off the land of cattle and fish every evening local villagers place their nets and in the morning the catch is. we always have enough here. by coal is often called the pearl of siberia horn is said to be the pearl of by. it's a land of think forests. and vast staps. it's also a place of traditions respected by locals and travelers the like. an economist turned adventurer has crisscrossed by called shores and learned its

customs well. you see. through it to have supernatural powers every traveler who comes here asks the spirits to make the journey easier give them strength and fulfill their dearest wishes virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i haunt us quickly become a magnet for nature lovers and fuel seekers but those used to five star pampering and maybe end for a surprise the island's infrastructure has yet to catch up with the growing demand you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very basic so you can forget about a t.v. or even running water for most people a tent is the on the eruption but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for.

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